DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Lovefield vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Lovefield vs. Realm vs. SpaceTime vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

google.github.io/lovefield

realm.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.ultipa.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

realm.io/docs

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Alibaba

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Mireo

Ultipa

Initial release

2016

2014

2020

2019

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
C++
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

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